Question

A sportswriter claims that her football predictions are accurate 60% of the time. During football season, a fan kept records and found that the writer was inaccurate for a total of 16 games, although she did maintain her 60% accuracy. For how many games was the sportswriter accurate?

(A) 5(B) 15(C) 24(D) 40(E) 60

Answer

The correct answer is (C).

If 60% of the games were predicted accurately, 40% of the games were predicted inaccurately.